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Lover's rock: the story of reggae's Motown

4812 days ago
Guardian Music — Lover's rock influenced the Police and Sade, and gave women a voice in reggae – so why was it sidelined in its native Britain?In 1979, Janet Kay's piercing falsetto was one of the defining sounds of the summer. Silly Games, her bittersweet ode to a... more info
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Reggae Britannia (BBC Rockumentary)

4823 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — The acclaimed BBC4 Britannia series moves into the world of British reggae. Showing how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society, the programme includes major artists and performances fro... more info
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Lord Kitchener steps off the Empire Windrush

4911 days ago
Guardian Music — 22 June 1948: Number 11 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Southampton, a new Britain was born. On board was the first wave of West Indian guest workers, answering a British gov... more info
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Tonight's TV highlights: Father Ray Comes Out | Hustle | Embarrassing Bodies | Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Harvest Of Sorrow | Reggae Britannia; Reggae Britannia At The Barbican | True Blood

5036 days ago
Guardian Music — Father Ray Comes Out | Hustle | Embarrassing Bodies | Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Harvest Of Sorrow | Reggae Britannia; Reggae Britannia At The Barbican | True BloodFather Ray Comes Out7.30pm, Channel 4 At the age of 60, Father Ray Andrews of the centr... more info
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Reggae Britannia – review

5039 days ago
Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonReggae was born in Jamaica but became an international style, and Britain played an important role in its transformation. As singer Ken Boothe said: "England is the first place that embraced Jamaican music." In the process, Jamaican s... more info
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Reggae: the sound that revolutionised Britain | Music

5048 days ago
Guardian Music — Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in ending the rift between black and white teenagers and introducing cross-pollination to the chartsIt was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket... more info
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sunday morning updates

5244 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — Zer0_II said... Plan 9 From Outer Space Soundtrack (1996 - Retrosonic Records) http://digitalmeltd0wn.blogspot.com Eclectic downloads said... Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Fairy Tales & Fantasies: The Best Of Nancy & Lee (1989) http://www.themoo... more info
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saturday morning updates

5245 days ago
Totally Fuzzy — K. Telle said... A Quick one today. Mp3s from Cut Copy (really catchy like Jellyfish 60s vibe) Pegi Young (Country/folk classic) http://thisismyhappening.blogspot.com Thanks again Fuzzy! Tam Borman said... BASS CULTURE MIX Winston Riley : Purify Bur... more info
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Louisa Mark obituary

5499 days ago
Guardian Music — Early star vocalist of the lovers' rock genreLouisa Mark, who has died suddenly aged 49, was one of the most important vocalists of lovers' rock, a uniquely black British style of romantic reggae that she helped to pioneer during the mid-1970s. Altho... more info
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